About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

February 22......

February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 312 (313 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1295 BC - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.

● 1853 - The Washington University is founded in St. Louis as Eliot Seminary.

● 1854 - 1st meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan

● 1855 - The U.S. Congress voted to appropriate $200,000 for continuance of the work on the Washington Monument. The next morning the resolution was tabled and it would be 21 years before the Congress would vote on funds again. Work was continued by the Know-Nothing Party in charge of the project.

● 1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded.

● 1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

● 1859 - U.S. President Buchanan approved the Act of February 22, 1859, which incorporated the Washington National Monument Society "for the purpose of completing the erection now in progress of a great National Monument to the memory of Washington at the seat of the Federal Government."

● 1894 - Marius Monfray dies in Lyons. French anarchist and trade unionist. In November 1886, he was given eight days in prison for organizing an illegal lottery (in support for a colleague on trial). His response, "Vive l'anarchie!," got him two years of prison time for "contempt of court."

● 1903 - Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water

● 1904 - UK recognises the South Orkney Islands as part of Argentina, in 1908 claims them again.

● 1906 - Black evangelist William J. Seymour first arrived in Los Angeles and began holding revival meetings. The "Azusa Street Revival" later broke out under Seymour's leadership, in the Apostolic Faith Mission located at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles. It was one of the pioneering events in the history of 20th century American Pentecostalism.

● 1907 - 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London

● 1909 - Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia

● 1912 - J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph

● 1913 - Lowell High School, San Francisco opens (on its 1st campus)

● 1915 - Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.

● 1917 - The Russian Revolution begins with a wave of strikes and protests in Petrograd (St. Petersburg).

● 1977 - Following a trade-union open meeting in Naples, Italy, luxury shops are plundered.

● 1978 - 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly TN

● 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.

● 1980 - American Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'None of us are normal, even after we are Christians if we mean by that being perfect. What is possible, however, is for us to live in the fullness of life in the circle of who we are, constantly pressing on the border lines to try to take further steps.'

● 1980 - The United States ice hockey team defeats the Soviet Union team at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".

● 1980 - Afghanistan declares martial law

● 1982 - NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful)

● 1983 - Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary

● 1983 - Four years after the Three-Mile-Island nuclear power plant meltdown, the Salem-One reactor in Massachusetts almost causes another disaster when its automatic-shutdown system fails. The circuit breakers are supposed to trigger control rods that shut down the reactor. They were designed to be oiled every six months, but an investigation reveals they have been lubricated only once in the past seven years -- and the wrong lubricant was used.

● 1983 - Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India

● 1984 - The U.S. Census Bureau statistics showed that the state of Alaska was the fastest growing state of the decade with an increase in population of 19.2 percent.

● 1986 - Filipino coup leaders tell Marcos to go; Two senior members of the government take refuge in the defence ministry building after demanding President Marcos step down following controversial elections.

● 1993 - The U.N. Security Council approved creation of an international war crimes tribunal to punish those responsible for atrocities in the former Yugoslavia.

● 1994 - The U.S. Justice Department charged Aldrich Ames and his wife with selling national secrets to the Soviet Union. Ames was later convicted to life in prison. Ames' wife received a 5-year prison term.

● 1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly, the first cloned sheep to be born was born in July 1996.

● 2001 - A U.N. war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs on charges of rape and torture in the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court.

● 2002 - Police in San Diego arrested David Westerfield in connection with the disappearance of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. (Westerfield was later convicted of kidnapping and murder and sentenced to death.)

● 2002 - In the Philippines, An MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashed into the ocean. All 10 men aboard were killed.

● 2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.

● 2005 - A Virginia man was charged with plotting with al-Qaida to kill President George W. Bush. (Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was later convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison.)

● 2006 - Insurgents destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off an unprecedented spasm of sectarian violence.

● Roman Catholic:● Chair of St. Peter at Antioch● St. Aristion● St. Athanasius● St. Baradates● St. Elwin● Bl. St. Isabel of France (died 1270)● St. Margaret of Cortona, Franciscan tertiary● Martyrs of Arabia● St. Maximian of Ravenna● St. Papias● St. Raynerius● St. Thalassius & Limuneus● Bl. John the Saxon

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 9 (Civil Date: February 22)● Opening of the Relics of St. Innocent of Irkutsk.● Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch.● Hieromartyrs Marcellus, Bishop of Sicily, Philagrius, Bishop of Cyprus, and Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina.● Martyr Peter Damascene.● Saints Nicephorus and Gennadius, monks of Vazheozersk (Vologda).● St. Pancratius, hieromonk of the Kiev Caves.● Saints Aemilianus and Braccchio of Tours (Gaul).● Repose of Maria, desert-dweller of Olonets (1860).

● United States — Washington's Birthday (traditionally).

● The Scouting movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts celebrate this day as "World Thinking Day", "B.-P. day", or "Founder's Day", as it is the shared birthday of the Scouts' founder Sir Robert Baden-Powell and his wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide.

● British Commonwealth : Girl Guides Thinking Day (1857)

● Central African Republic : President's Birthday

● Egypt, Syria : Unity Day (1958)

● India : Mothers Day

● México : National Mourning Day (Francisco I Madero-1913)

● Qatar : Amir's Assumption of Amirship (1972)

● St Lucia : Independence Day (1979)

● Virgin Island : Donkey Races Day

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"● World : Brotherhood Day (1934) - - - - - ( Sunday )

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